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Oholei Torah Marks 57 Years

This Shabbos, Oholei Torah will be celebrating 57 years since its founding in 5716/1956. Can you identify the students in these archive photos from the 1970's? Full Story

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Wooow
January 16, 2012 7:34 pm

Look at reb Avraham’s black beard!! And his face expression never changed!:()

ha!
January 16, 2012 6:52 pm

all i know is that thouse desks r the same as today!

picture #3
January 16, 2012 10:47 am

zalman tzfasman zalmaqn goldstein simon jaycobson moshe silver dovid holztberg
yes i miss those days

bus picture
January 15, 2012 10:43 pm

from left to right,
chaim leib hildeshaim, toronto ontario heads the JRCC in toronto for russian jewery.
yonah vilenkin, toronto ontario, heads the great tzivos hashem organztion.
mendy hurowitz, sharron mass. heads chabad of the areae serving the american israeli and russian jews

Picture 4
January 15, 2012 10:42 pm

That is not one of the teachers, but rather Rabbi Lustig (senior).

Not the 70's
January 15, 2012 9:02 pm

Definitely the 8o’s

Picture #18
January 15, 2012 5:37 pm

I’m sure the kid standing up in front in Brown shirt is Rabbi Mendy Weiss from Miami Lakes- His son Shneur Zalman is his duplicate. Who are the other boys??????

this is so beautiful
January 15, 2012 3:17 pm

why don’t you do this more col?

i spy.............
January 15, 2012 12:59 pm

Reb Avrohom!!!!

Picture 4
January 15, 2012 11:16 am

Who’s the teacher in picture 4?

OT Teacher
January 15, 2012 10:48 am

Nice to see you Morah Hecht! You haven’t changed a bit!

levi drimmer
January 15, 2012 9:44 am

is that him? page 15

to #7
January 15, 2012 1:45 am

as the doros get weaker and weaker we need to be more strict whether in dress whether in kashrus to keep us in place. we used to wear short sleeves till the age of 8 years ago. today all the chitzoinius is done with the wrong kavonos which we cannot allow,no? that is what i understand.

Picture 18
January 15, 2012 12:06 am

Rabbi Burston! The best teacher a person can have!

#8
January 14, 2012 11:32 pm

Levi Deitsch A”H

yossi stern
January 14, 2012 11:16 pm

Amazing! Looking at those pictures, it makes me realize how life was so much simpler then. Oholei Torah is not just an institution, it is a pillar of jewish chasidish education in the 20th century. Oholei Torah did not just teach students….it set a way of life for tens of thousands of people for generations and generations. May hashem give Oholei Torah to continue to be a beacon of light in torah and yiddishkeit now that life is not so simple.

# 12 names of the students I see
January 14, 2012 11:11 pm

Menachem Mendel Korf, Dovid Moshe Newman, Levi Labkowski, Eliyohu Backman, Ben Tzion Aster, Shmuel Shanovitch, Efrayim Keller, Yechezkel Woudowsky, Menachem Mendel Wineberg.

fan
January 14, 2012 11:09 pm

three boys looking out bus window, kupshin ,rosenbloom an gottlib

pretty good but you are missing one name
January 14, 2012 9:53 pm

to #11 very good!

there are 22 ka”h you wrote 21 names i think you missed the one in the far left of the pic behind r mendy lieberman, i think its mendy stolik.

r' tversky
January 14, 2012 9:34 pm
#13
January 14, 2012 9:09 pm

#13 motti goldstein, chonie rivkin, mendy landau, zevi frimmerman, yitzchok crawford, yanky mejeski, ari kirschenbaum, shloimy strenberg, zushy gurevitch,

Pic 15
January 14, 2012 8:54 pm

Rabbi Yossi Shochat’s class, remember? 1987?

ch resident
January 14, 2012 8:27 pm

anyone know who the teacher is in number 6

pic 8
January 14, 2012 7:33 pm

seen are:
Zalmy Drizin, Berel Barash, Chaim Leib Hildeshaim, Yonah vilenkin, Levy Dietch A”H, Nochi Goldshmidt, Pesach Burston,

and the teacher is Rabbi yankel Borenstein who was the teacher for the second half of the day.

pic no 4
January 14, 2012 7:11 pm

shmuly akselrod ?

pic 8
January 14, 2012 6:29 pm

go rabbi hertzel!! world’s greatest rebbie!

pic 14
January 14, 2012 5:25 pm

I see?, sruly silver, zevie engel, ? moishy zavdy, bentzion turk, levi gottlieb, aizik binyominson

#22
January 14, 2012 6:45 am

Mendel Deitch and Shmulik Nemanov

PIC 24
January 14, 2012 5:50 am

Berel Light. Mendy Lieberman. Osher Poter. NAftoli Wiengarten. Mintz. Leiba Schapiro. Shmuly Slavin

picture 8
January 13, 2012 5:15 pm

boy in blue shirt is yonah vilenkin

years
January 13, 2012 4:40 pm

Definitely NOT the 70s. I’m in a few pics and I wasn’t born in the 70s.

I spy
January 13, 2012 4:39 pm

Yossi stern berg, Keller

to 2
January 13, 2012 3:54 pm

It’s my class you got the names wrong.
Light, hertzel, Mintz, Lieberman, Weingarten, gopin, shapira, slavin, Gansburg, hoffman, M Levin, wolwowsky, rogalsky, Okinow, S. Levin, Putter, wolsow, Roness, Tauber, Gurkow, Gabi Holtzberg HY”D
It seems the teacher is Rabbi Gershovsky

Picture # 14
January 13, 2012 3:52 pm

First row on right: Aron i Binyominson, Levi Gotlib.
Next row to left: Mendy Mintz, Moshe Zavdi, Ben Zion Turk,
Next row to left: Chezky Holtsberg, Sruly Silver, Zevi Engel, Shimon Kramer

First Picture
January 13, 2012 3:46 pm

I see Pinny Vishedsky.

Oholei Torah Chai
January 13, 2012 3:43 pm

Whoa, such memories……. Can’t believe it was so long ago, remember the shefa milk?, Hey there’s avremy zuntz
Itch gross!, where’s my class??!!

colored shirts-wow!
January 13, 2012 3:27 pm

Notice the elementary boys were allowed to wear striped and colored shirts and these boys turned out to be Chassidishe Bochurim. Today with the stifiling of the rules that overwhelm the young bochurim….this shows that it’s okay to be a chasiddishe boy and not make a “Tumel” about the intricate factors of ones Levush at such a young age. Mazel Tov! Oholei Torah on 57 years of incredible Chinuch in Lubavitch. May you go from Strength to Strength!

Early 70s?
January 13, 2012 3:06 pm

Photos 6 and 10 (and probably some of the others) appear to be from early 80s…(What year was Tzivos Hashem founded?)

Looks like my Yochonon Klein is in #6!
January 13, 2012 3:01 pm
alumni
January 13, 2012 2:59 pm

great collection.
those were the days my friend, we thought they’ll never end ….

picture #8
January 13, 2012 2:34 pm

bottom right-
zalmy drizin

CUTE!
January 13, 2012 2:33 pm

#24 is a Mintz,#23 Goldstein, Barber, Tsfasman, #16 Labkowsky #14 Turk #5 Ari Pshemish, Posner, Heller #4 Chaim Shapira #3 Kaminker

the rebbes children
January 13, 2012 2:32 pm

beautiful bgashmius and bruchnius

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